Re: "Anticipatory" Tense

In a message dated 03/1/02 10:45:47 PM, Ian Maxwell writes:

<< My question is, does a word already exist for this, or can I just use

my own invented word? >>

And exponent posited:

<<Inchoative?>>

    It was my understanding that "inchoative" was "becoming", and that's how
I've been using it in my language.  Take the idea of "beauty".  In Megdevi,
maZala would be "to make x beautiful, to beautify x", dZamaZala (with the
intransitive prefix) would be "to be beautiful", maZalisa (with the passive
suffix) would be "to be made beautiful, to be beautified", and maZUllala
(with the inchoative infix) would be "to become beautiful".  Someone else
called this "waxing" and its opposite "waning" (I'm terrible with names; I
apologize!).  Yet, "about to" does have a term, I know it does.  Anticipatory
sounds good, though, even if there is another, "formal" term.

-David

"Zi hiwejnat zodZaraDatsi pat Zi mirejsat dZaCajani sUlo."
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
                --Jim Morrison

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